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...dotcom bust. Staggering budget deficits. A hellzapoppin' gubernatorial recall. What other misfortune could happen to California? Well, Joan Didion, who was born and raised there, could write an elegantly acerbic book arguing that the sustaining myths by which the state defines itself are false, self-deluding and corrupt. Where I Was From (Knopf; 226 pages) is that book, and Governor-elect Schwarzenegger, for one, can give thanks that it was written too soon to include...
...Tambogrande seems to want none of it. Although two-thirds of the people in Piura live on less than $2 a day, 90% of Tambogrande's voters rejected the Manhattan Minerals project in a nonbinding referendum late last year. Many are fearful that the open-pit mine will corrupt their farmlands, even though Manhattan pledges not to sully or siphon off the area's precious irrigation canals and reservoirs. "We are not going to allow a mine to destroy our way of life," says Tambogrande Mayor Francisco Ojeda...
Mbikusita-Lewanika said that western attempts to industrialize Africa have resulted in the loss of indigenous mastery of land cultivation, leading to villages that are less able to support themselves in ways they could afford. And Western relief efforts are either too focused on urban areas or mishandled by corrupt governments, and thus fail to alleviate the problems...
...first female governor of Puerto Rico described her efforts to overcome many years of corrupt leadership and return clean government to the commonwealth in a speech at Harvard last Friday...
...noted that corrupt leadership over the past 50 years led to a large loss of the Puerto Rican government’s founding principles of “honesty, compassion, responsibility and respect.” But the corrupted class of former leaders have been exposed, tried and jailed, she said...